Egg-carrier



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D. GOODWILLIE.

EGG CARRIER.

No. 249,753. Patented Nov. 22,1881.

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DAVIDGOODWILLIE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

EGG-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,753, dated November22, 1881.

Application filed May 28, 1881. (No model To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID GOODWILLIE, of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement 'inEgg-Carriers, of which the followingis a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the improvement, inwhich- Figure 1 is a top or plan of an egg-carrier embodying myimprovement Fig. 2,aside elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a sectionalelevation of one egg-pocket and an egg represented therein. Fig. 4 showsthe position of the slats when folded. Fig. 5 is a broken elevation ofone of the main strips, showing one form of diagonal slot to receive thecross-strip; Fig. 6,abrokenelevation of one of the cross-strips,showingthe slot through which the tongue of the main strip passes.

The nature of the present invention consists in the combination of themain slats of the carrier, provided with horizontally-enlarged verticalor inclined slots, and tongues extending longitudinally across theslots, in connection with transverse slats put through the upper portionof the main slats to support the upper portions of the eggs, and slatsput through the elongated slots in the lower portion of the main slats,and hung to tongues to incline laterally and adjust themselves to theform of those portions ofthe eggs with which they come in contactandiinparta yielding support therefor, as the, whole is hereinafterfully described and shown.

A represents the main slats, which form two sides of the egg-pockets.

B are the upper transverse slats, which form the two sides of the topparts of the pockets, at right angles to the slats A.

0 represents thelower transverse slats, which form the bearings tosupport the eggs. The slots I, through which the upper slats pass, aresimply wide enough for slats B readily to be inserted therein; but thelower slots, J, are so wide as will allow the slats therein to, incross-section, set at right angles to the slats A, and to be so inclinedas to substantially fit the form of the egg at such'a distance from itsapex as to give it an easy support, and for this purpose the lowertongues on the main slats are made so much narrower than the slots {1,through which they pass, as to allow the slats O readily to turnlaterally.

Different forms of tongues, I), Z), and d, may be employed to attain alike result in uniting the parts.

The tongues are not new in this application; neither are such slots aswill hold the upper and lower strips vertical, as they have before beenused.

The diagonal slot K at figure B B, which has inclined margins to supportthe slats or strips when eggs are placed on them, and which allows theslat to assume vertical positions when the several parts of the carrierare shut together, I consider new, asI do also the slots J, which allowthe lower transverse slats to have a like position.

It will be understood that the tongues pass through slots 9 in thetransverse slats G, by which means the egg-pockets have in the planrectangular forms, as shown in- Fig. 1.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In anegg-carrier, the combination of the slat A, having the slots J andtongues d, with the slat 0, having the slot r the slots J and g beingofdilierent size relatively to the parts which they receive, to permitthe slat G to rock from a vertical to an inclined position, as and forthe purpose set forth.

DAVID GO0DWILLIE.- Witnesses:

G. L. CHAPIN, HATTIE lvl. RAY.

